CVE-2018-0494

Wget vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

17.0%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

GNU Wget before 1.19.5 is prone to a cookie injection vulnerability in the resp_new function in http.c via a \r\n sequence in a continuation line.

Affected vendor

Gnu

Affected product

Wget

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2018-05-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 17.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Gnu Wget is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-0494.
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